Queensland Numbered Acts

ASSISTED REPRODUCTIVE TECHNOLOGY ACT 2024 - SECT 139

139 False or misleading information

(1) A person must not give an official performing a function under this Act information the person knows is false or misleading in a material particular.

Penalty—

Maximum penalty—100 penalty units.

(2) Subsection (1) does not apply to a person if the person, when giving the information in a document—

(a) tells the official, to the best of the person’s ability, how the document is false or misleading; and

(b) if the person has, or can reasonably obtain, the correct information—gives the correct information.

(3) In this section—

"official" means—

(a) the chief executive; or

(b) a member of the staff of the chief executive or a contractor engaged by the chief executive; or

(c) an inspector; or

(d) the registrar; or

(e) a member of the staff of the registrar or a contractor engaged by the registrar.